El Salvador Movies

A monologue about the meaning of being art, delivered by the last character you’d expect: a pair of pants. A short film by Ponchi Simán.

Produced by the Radio Venceremos System, chronicles the first decade of the guerrilla broadcaster that became a crucial communication tool for the...

Between 1980 and 1992, El Salvador was at war. Two Venezuelans joined the guerrilla movement in that Central American country and participated in...

Salvadoran documentary about the revolutionary movement, produced by the Centro de Producciones Audiovisuales de Guazapa.

A young woman in El Salvador wishes to hear the village bell before she joins a caravan to the US, but the antique bell hasn't rung in 25 years and...

A hangover is the least of Giovanni's problems when his wild bachelor party and a stripper give him the biggest headache of his life.

A production by Radio Venceremos in 1992. The documentary's central objective is to showcase Radio Venceremos' new role after the end of the armed...

Diana develops a deep interest in the sound of the sirens that roam her city every night, until she starts to talk to them in her dreams.

After a tragic death, a family of three is forced to move to a desolated part of the country only to be haunted by mythical creatures.

The military dictatorships, which held power in El Salvador, instituted a way of governing the country that became unsustainable. Electoral frauds...

Huachindango is the small capital of a small Central American country. In this city, women must enter rooms managed by “The System” at...

January 22, 1932. An unprecedented peasant uprising erupts in western El Salvador, as a group of Latino and indigenous peasants cut army supply...

An experimental short film centering on a circus performance in San Salvador.

Filmed by Guillermo Escalón in July 1981, it shows daily life in territories under guerrilla control in the Francisco Sánchez...

El Salvador's most dramatic landscapes unfold all around you in this sensory-driven flight experience that captures the nation's soul from above....

The title refers to the legacy of Archbishop Oscar Romero who was assassinated in his cathedral in March 1980.

For Lourdes, a writer of the Salvadoran diaspora, returning to her native country means having to face complex emotions around a misogynistic...

The central objective of the documentary is to show the social situation of the peasant communities in the department of Morazán. The...